Quotes about Certainty

This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they're dance partners. It's possible to hold your faith with open hands, living with great conviction and yet at the same time humbly admitting that your knowledge and perspective will always be limited.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.